Improvement in preparing shoe-pegs



UNITED "STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES GIFFORD, OF BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARING SHOE-PEGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5,780, datedSeptember'19,1848.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES GIFFORD, of Braintree, in the county ofNorfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and ImprovedMode of Preparing Shoe-Pegs, of

which I do hereby declare the following is a easily com bustihle. I thenadd comparatively a small quantity of cold water, but enough to allaythe heat, so as not to burn the pegs, which I then stir into the liquid,they having been previously baked dry, and being moderately hot, addingmore pegs from time totime, it necessary, unlil the whole composition isabsorbed or taken up.

The quantity of pegs for any given quantity of the liquid will dependupon the discletion oftheindividual. All things considered, about onebushel of common maple pegs to two quarts of the liquid is a fairproportion. Other compositions may be employed; but I prefer the above.

Whatl claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The application of water-proof compositions to shoe-pegs, in the mannerand for the purposes above specified.

CHAS. GIFFORVD. Witnesses! -GEORGE W. BROWN, WILLIAM PERKINS.

